Nationality Indian Name Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Ethnicity Bengali Role Author | Alma mater Calcutta University Education University of Calcutta Occupation author Awards Ananda Puraskar | |
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Born 2 November 1935 (age 89) ( 1935-11-02 ) Books Sirshendu: bindu theke sindhu, Waiting for Rain: A Novel Movies Chhayamoy, Astonishing Lamp, Patalghar, Dosar, Gosainbaganer Bhoot Similar People Sunil Gangopadhyay, Imdadul Haq Milon, Samaresh Majumdar, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Premendra Mitra | ||
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়; born 2 November 1935) is a famous Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children. He is known for creating the relatively new fictional sleuths Fatik and Shabor.
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Life
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay was born in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) on 2 November 1935 and lived there up to age ten. During partition his family migrated to Kolkata. He spent his childhood in Bihar and many places in Bengal and Assam accompanying his father, who worked in the railways. He passed intermediate from the Victoria College, Koch Bihar before taking a Masters in Bengali from Calcutta University.
Mukhopadhyay started his career as a school teacher and is now on the staff of Anandabazar Patrika at Kolkata. He is associated with the Bengali magazine Desh.
Spiritually, Mukhopadhyay is heavily influenced by the Hindu sub-sect of Thakur Anukulchandra. Many of his books are dedicated with a salutation 'Ra-Swa'. Ra-Swa stands for Radha Swami (this is a standard salutation for followers of Anukul-Thakur).
Comics from his stories
A comics based on his book Bipinbabur Bipad was released. With artwork by Swapn Debnath, the 48-page comic was published in monthly issues of Anandamela (September 2006 to December 2006). Another story Nababganjer Agantuk, is now in the process of becoming an action comics by Visual Literature Entertainment, a group of new generation comics creators. Four more comics based on his novellas have been brought out by Parul Prakashani: Patalghar, Bidhu Daroga, Pagla Saheber Kabor and Patashgarer Jangale. They are created by Sujog Bandyopadhyaya. His popular children's novel, Gosainbaganer Bhoot, was done into a graphic novel, The Ghost of Gosainbagan. The script was done by journalist, Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey. It was published by Starmark.
Thrillers
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay has also penned thrillers like Kalo Beral, Shada Beral, and even started a series with detective Shabar Dasgupta in the lead. Shabar Dasgupta is a Detective of Lalbazar. He is a tough cop, With little Emotion, heavy mental strength and Great Sense of Humor. But the series was not successful at beginning, so he discontinued writing it. But later this series got positive reviews and some movies also released which is based on his Detective fictions grabbing positive reviews.
Movies
His novels were later adopted in movies.
Works
"Jol torongo" was his first story published in the magazine "Desh" in 1959. After 7/8 years of writing story "Ghunpoka" was his first novel published in the annual Puja edition of the magazine Desh. His first children's novel was called Manojder Adbhut Baari.